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726 very common characters,

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Selected liists of Chinese Characters.

INTRODUCTION.

The following lists of Chinese characters, with Ro-
manization, were arranged for use on the wheel of a Chinese
typewriter, now in process of perfecting before introducing
to the public. Four thousand six hundred and sixty-two
characters are separated for rapidity in finding upon the
wheel into three lists — very common, 726 ; common, 1,386 ;
less common, 2,550. Extra room-space on the wheel was
utilized for 162 untabnlated characters, repeated from the
very common list. In writing Chinese about one-half of the
characters recurring will be taken from this list, it therefore
constituting the printing center. For general composition
nineteen-twentieths of the characters recurring will be found
within the list of 726. Nearly all desired characters out-
side of this list will be found within the adjoining list of
1,386. The larger half of the wheel containing 2,550
characters will be used quite infrequently, more often how-
ever as knowledge of Chinese increases. : :*•*•*• •'*'•"

These lists ought to be of value in
to judge as to the relative importance of c
position. It is not a very difficult matter to master a few
hundred characters in writing and speech, and if they are
properly selected one wakens to the pleasing sensation that
they are in possession of a working vocabulary, and with
this foundation additional study is without the usual sense
of drudgery. The line between very common, common,
and less common, can only be drawn approximately, as these
orders of characters may be likened to different strata of
clouds, one stratum rising above another, and yet the exact
lines of separation undeterminable. As to the list in its to-
tality, while including a liberal vocabulary for a native
scholar, no two men would agree as to the question of add-
ing or subtracting. As it stands it is the result of a con-
sensus of opinion among several scholars, erring on the safe
side of too many characters, with the reserved right of
further revision.

D. Z. SHEFFIELD.

SELECTED LISTS

— OF —

CHINESE CHARACTERS

Arranged according of the frequency of their recurrence

— BY —

Rev. D. Z. SHEFFIELD, D.D.

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PRINTED AT THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS,

1903.

GIFT OF
Harry E. Stevens

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SELECTED LISTS

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CHINESE CHARACTERS

Arranged according of the frequency of their recurrence

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— BY —

Rev. D. Z. SHEFFIELD, D.D.

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1903.

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